Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were n't very conventional , they were mostly younger and were into being public and talking about it . |
| 2 | Of course , the letters were to be polite , but he did away with all the pompous formalities reserved for potentates . |
| 3 | The only enterprises to be excluded from this plan were to be geothermal power stations , the central airport , and " possibly " the railways and other important national facilities . |
| 4 | These heavy round-arched stations were to be influential in Ontario , Canada , in the same period , and the Romanesque , rarely among station styles , proved amenable to both small- and large-scale treatment . |
| 5 | For some the Situationists were to be appealing . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's been one thing understood between us for years and that was that you were to be discreet . |
| 7 | There were to be listening posts with recorded messages , sturdy steps set into inclines , handrails at strategic points and gates adapted for guide dogs . |
| 8 | The Manchurian Academy trained others who were to be prominent after 1945 . |
| 9 | Relationships with foreigners , according to the official line , were to be friendly and co-operative , but based on the contribution they could make to China 's modernisation drive . |
| 10 | The physical and organizational settings in which children 's learning took place were to be all-important , and the combination of PNP resourcing , advisory effort and enhanced school staffing were all to be directed to their improvement , or to establishing what advisory staff termed ‘ the quality learning environment ’ . |
| 11 | The bold claim that all models were to be available from day one quickly fell flat . |
| 12 | On completion , the use of day and residential facilities , including a family flat , were to be available to parents and children with physical disabilities or sensory impairments . |
| 13 | Ration cards were to be available next day and without these it would be impossible for the Joyces to stay . |
| 14 | All records were to be available to Cardiff city council to allow it to discharge its statutory responsibilities . |
| 15 | It was forbidden to punish children by confinement during the night , and corporal punishment was not inflicted except for boys under the age of fourteen ( and then at least two officers were to be present ) . |
| 16 | Wardle , Appleyard , Close , Lowson , Trueman and Illingworth entered cricket in Yardley 's reign and all had great respect for his tactical ingenuity and his benevolent , Gower-style leadership although they were to be critical later . |
| 17 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 18 | In commenting on the 1991 budget shortly before its final acceptance , the IMF was less critical than in the previous year [ see p. 37509 ] , but stressed that the following year would be crucial if Italy were to be capable of participating fully in European economic and monetary union . |
| 19 | The autonomy of the Kurdish zone was to be strengthened , in an area expanded to include Kirkuk ; there were to be new and free elections to Kurdish councils ; the Kurds , having asked for a fair share of oil revenue , would be allotted 25–30% of the total Iraqi budget . |
| 20 | On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role . |
| 21 | If an offending media organisation were to be obliged to publish the ombudsman 's findings , Lord Mackay said , there would be a fair degree of pressure for it to pay up , although not formally bound to do so . |
| 22 | The United Kingdom and the Governments of several other member states consider that , if national measures of the type at issue were to be contrary to the articles of the E.E.C . |
| 23 | In practice , however , simple majorities were to be applicable only in six very minor and procedural areas . |
| 24 | The stations were to be vast in size but unexciting in form . |
| 25 | judges were to be irremovable , trials were to be held in public , juries were to adjudicate serious criminal cases , and elected justices of the peace were to hear minor criminal and civil cases . |
| 26 | Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’ |
| 27 | Julias Lukasiewicz , from Carlton University in Ottawa , Canada , said that if new high speed trains were to be successful in North America then they had to include a new track like the Japanese Bullet trains or the french TGV . |
| 28 | If it were to be successful the mental health movement would have to move away from any strong association with welfare . |
| 29 | Strong trade unions , especially in the public sector , had successfully resisted attacks on the Welfare State in the past , and so needed to be defeated if the Tories ’ solution to what they saw as the major problem — inflation — were to be successful . |
| 30 | Freemen who failed to swear were to be mutilated and exiled . |